PNWBOCES Social Studies/English Language Arts Grade 6
Potential Enduring Understandings


  • Accessing and interpreting evidence is essential to understanding and learning.

  • Studying the past helps us to understand our present and make decisions about our future.

  • People develop different solutions for similar needs, challenges and desires.

  • Human beings adapt to and interact with the people and the world around them.

  • Geography impacts the development of civilizations.

  • There is an interaction between people and their environment.

  • Culture provides an identity that influences how we view the world, make decisions, and seek solutions to problems.

  • Prior civilizations have contributed the cultural elements of religion, art, music, architecture, traditions, beliefs, and language to the modern world.

  • Technological developments trigger turning points in history.